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[Antares_Z13]

Hmm? I take it you like my work? *rubs chin*

[Nyctaeus]

This truly awesome , however the clouds are too sharp.

[Rodo]

very good!

[Antares_Z13]

Thank you, thank you. I appreciate the responses. You don't know how happy that makes me.

[JCDNWarrior]

Definitely great work mate; I dont currently have Photoshop sadly, think you could make it ready for use in FRED2? I'd love to make good use of it. =)

[Antares_Z13]

Definitely great work mate; I dont currently have Photoshop sadly, think you could make it ready for use in FRED2? I'd love to make good use of it. =)

Don't know how to go about doing that atm. If someone explains then I can do it in my spare time or someone else can make it FRED ready. Right now I'm kinda busy with other tasks so I would prefer the latter.

Edit: SDM said something about converting the thing to .dds...I'm not sure if that's all I would need to do though.

[JCDNWarrior]

Yeah, if i remember right, it would need to be a .dds and then tabled for use. I got a lot of custom skyboxes from others but i'm a little forgetful today. Thanks for the response though =) Perhaps I should try to load it in with Gimp though.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Putting planets in FSO in five easy steps

1. Make sure your planet has a transparent background. The atmosphere (if you have one) should nicely blend into transparency, not cut off anywhere.
2. Save your planet as a square power-of-two-resolution PNG (32 bpp RGBA, if you have the choice).
3. Use nvdxt (download here) to convert your file to DDS, options -dxt5 -quality_highest
4. Put the DDS in your mod's /data/effects folder, add the line $BitMapX: <your planet filename, no extension, also not the brackets> to your mod's -str.tbm
5. Profit!

[NeoKnight]

Thanks for the reference FSF, it's a great resource to the visitors of this thread. Also, outstanding planet Antares. One of the best I've seen in this thread.

[Antares_Z13]

Thanks for the reference FSF, it's a great resource to the visitors of this thread. Also, outstanding planet Antares. One of the best I've seen in this thread.

Thank you. The praise is appreciated. I like to aim high...to go beyond the bounds.

[-Sara-]

Incredible Antares, love the final result! Quite amazing since I know it's your first serious photoshop project.  

[watsisname]

Very impressive work, Antares!  You put a lot of work into that and it really shows.  I think the surface texture in particular is the best part of all, especially with that high resolution.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

You like it? Don't like it? I'll take any criticism you wanna spew. Bring it on!

[Retsof]

Not bad, but it seems a bit too grainy, like the MSPaint spray tool...

[Rodo]

It's missing the dust clouds and the colors, aside from that star-wise is seems complete.

[Droid803]

Yer i think some dust would go a long way

[T-LoW]

*points*

[watsisname]

@FreeSpaceFreak:
I think the star brightness, distribution, color, and size are all FANTASTIC, but as a few have mentioned it could use some obscuring dust in there to help make things just a bit more visually interesting.  Faint areas of blue and pinkish nebulosity might be nice, too!

Edit: Just want to emphasize that I'm not recommending any kind of drastic changes -- any additions I can suggest ought to be quite subtle.  What you have currently really is good so I don't think it needs all that much more to make perfect.

@T-LoW:
Spiral arms are great, though the glow around the central region is a little overwhelming in my opinion.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Guh, those dark nebulas are a *pain* to get right... this is the best I could do so far... For better or worse? Been working on this for so long now that my judgement has gotten obscured x_x

And whatever scaling FSO is using for the skybox sides, it's not very friendly to this, especially around the core.